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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-07-07
FAMILIES HOMELESS IN CLARENDON.

ERIE, Penn, July (speeab.-The State authorities
have been asked aid the sufferers by the fire In Car
endon Over 800 families are homeless This evening
200 tents arrived from the State arsenal at Harrisburg
and the hills dotted with the white tents giving inc
homeless people shelter fresh fire broke out THIS
afternoon and burned several oil tanks and dcrricks
The people in great alarm fearing the burning oil
The Warren fire department responded to an appeal for
aid and succeeded in stopping what had the appearance
Of becoming general forest fire.
skeleton was found to-day in one OF the hotel rooms
it lie coniectured that the bones OF the dead arc his
William McCutchen. OF the badly burned men died
today John Mahone proprietor OF the Weaver House.
WHO was arrested upon charge or starting the re was
bailed of Jail to-day He returned to Clarendon an
upon il being known that he there party started
out to lynch him. He succeeded in escaping Ills friends
are confident OF his acqutta. The exact number OF
buildings burned Is 2S5 and the loss Is S45OOOO on
which there was an Insurance OF Is per GEN..
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INDUSTRIOUS ITALIANS
Maple. Letter in The american Rsgtstei

gentleman from the United states, VINO rs S,on
,andboIdcr and farmer and a most Industrious man.
spent tho winter OF 1s74-75 here In Naples. lie
studied the people. Ito did not go on with the usun
Snan Judgment OF travellers who arc here Tor Few
Jays and always In great hurry, and who infer thae
ali tho people beggars and lazy, because In
io conqrcgate. But he studied the population at his
came 10 the conclusion that tho Italians In general are
ANYTHING but lazy. One day he spoke to me OF the IN
dustrorsness Of tho laboring people, ana said me
IN tho morning before l do" am reminded OF TINS
conversation by one Of tho proverbs In question:
which is rifo in Austria and othcr parts OF Eastern
Europe viz: "If you wish to cheat an italian you
will have rise very early In the morning 10 no IT,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-07-07
UNWILLING 10 LEAD 4 DOUBLE LIFE.
A nAnlKM WAY snoors HIMSELF BECAUSE HE nan

A HARLEM MAN SHOOTS HIMSELF BECAUSE HE HAD
TWO WIVES DEATH BETTER THAN DISGRACE.
tall young man, with bowel head. walked slowly
through one OF the winding paths IN Central Park yes
terlay afternoon until he came To rustic
bench In the shadow OF a chump OF trees near
Ninetieh-sL and Fifth-ave lie sat on the bench and
stared modify at the ground for a while aud his lips
moved as II he talking in undcrtone. Suddenly
he took revolver from hts pocket placed 1t against his
left breast and froi. lie fell forward on his face
number and children close by aud their
screams and the report OF the revolver attracted the
attention Policeman Odell, who hurried TO the spot
The man moaning and writing on the ground when
the officer up. and he still held the pistol
a 3s-calibre-in his hand. lie was not I'M
conscious. but refused TO talk An ambulance
summoned aud be was taken to the Presby terrain
Hospital There he told the house that his name
was Alfred wenschenk his twenty four that he
clerk In a shirt store, and lived at No go East One
Weinschenk has Deen married about year, aud he
lived 10 two story cottage aud apparently was happy
habits and seemed to prefer n, wss soisnE
gave birth to a baby boy few DAYS and hor hus.
band appeared To be greatly pleased aud talked about
what he going 10 do for the little one -,
Although apparently so devoted TO his vile. he mas
according the statement lie made at the hospital after
became with young girl, who Is said to live
in Harlem aud to work In n store In Slxthave. lie
already bound MIN TO one woman he married a second
one What the OF tho second wife Is or where she
that she is ignorant OF the fact that Wcinsehenk
was area adv married when he married her Wenschenk
who Is Of au exceedingly nervous disposition
ronid not stand the strain OF Ewing a dual life
and though he concealed his worrment from his
family his friends noticed that he absent minded
and frequently forgot what he doing intended to
do lie left his home In the morning aud kissed his VIE
affectlopaiey did not to bis place OF business
bur wandered around the city until afternoon when he
went to the park aud shot himself -, -,
Emma Rice, the sister OF Mrs Wclnschenk when
word came to the would-be suicides home that ne
had shot himself. went To tho hospital ana
saw Weinschenk lie SAID TO her when she asked
him why be had shot himself " married another
woman ard could not bear the Disgrace Mrs "eln'
nix was not told last evening OF her husbands per-
ndy Weimschenk In critical condition last even
Ing though there Is n chance that he may recover.
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TAKEN FROM THE DAILY MAIL.
HENRY GEORGE AND THE FARMERS.

70 the Editor OF The Tribune.
SIR give few facts for any who may think that the
teachings OF Henry George need answer, which no
does here in the country where the land Hes
1. There is tendency to land monopoly Almost
the whole State of New-York was covered by manor
rights and large land grants. The whole Is now divided
into moderateszed FARMS TO the number Of more than
100000. Not 300 Of these have than 900 acres
each. Duchess County entirely covered by large
land grants It is divided into $40 farms, only
two of which have more than 900 acres
q 1t be shown that the greatest economy OF pro-
duction farms OF moderate size that is that more
food produced in proportion to the labor expended
g. present value of the farms Of the whole country
from the labor which has been expended on them
That u.s. the value saabe productve-of the farms
Of the whole country not greater than the value OF TIE
labor expended them in buildings, fences. bridges,
orchards gardens and ornamental trees The OF the
land is theft" but benefcent public service
which would never have without ownership.
a. II Government give the OF land to an indi-
vidual for Que year or five years public good IT
give II for the same purpose to family IN perpe'u
s. To require the landhoders to pay all the expenses
OF the public service is against the public good "
would add to the cost of all kinds Of food and would
depress the interest OF agriculture. -
g. Taxes on land are already unduly increased. The
farm in Dutchess County which paid in taxes my
schoo, taxes This is not all owing the increased cost
Of the public service nor to the increased value o. n
T. Those who shout for Henry George do not want
land They get food laying brick and carrying the
hod than the ownership Of their quota OF land would give
them III,
T. Poverty is not increasing. None are poor Tor lacS
of work or sufficient wages The relation OF wages anu
the cost OF living is constantly changing IN sy6r p o
labor Very numerous examples he given OF those
who gained competence by frugal use oi the conon
wages OF labor o
g. Tho accumulated wealth of individuals or corpora
tons has away anything from the iaborer OF
from the poor, prevented their acquisition ON the
contrary every laborng man Is partaker OF the pen
efts OF the progress of the country in wealth. -
A DUTCHEs3 COUNTY FARMER
Tlinn IulY 3. lSS1.
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now A STEEPLE III IlfBER ESUA PED
~. 4. Ifx-f,anK Ea0n1rSr

oo -, tho noted characters Of Cincinnati the "stee-
pe climber died Thursday night at his home No 80
n ani nearly thirty years no has been climbing stec-
PIES in this city No point too high and dizzy i9r
Tim to reach and maintain his steady foothold VI at
he would undertake only those difficult feas that
snpaled others IL was his pardonahlc boast that ne
could 90 as high or higher than any other man lheIo
ore many stories OF his hazardous exploits In TINS city'
The most notable probably, was the draplng OF the "a
thedra spIre on the night following Archbishop FUR
ceI;s death on the ground below were three OF tour
tbousand people eagerly watching for glance AT INC
daring man as the lightning flashes revealed MN On
the dizzy height -. -, u,o,o, IN.
Weston when only twelve years Of age had placer INC
fin on rho same steeple Another feat that was tsseo
about at the time was the night OF July q, 1870
Weston climbed the Spre Of the Presbyterian Chutcn
on Fourths tho tallest in the city, ana naea fast
trom tbc ground II was OF this occasion that ne hn
y narrnv sscape Weston had obtained from Niche,
The ieweer heavy gold chain, the links OF when Wero
oil solid Ills chain. when he falling held him
for brief moment during which the climber succeeded
In regaining his hold
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OBITUARY.
COLONEL JOHN r. FELLOWS.

Boston, July o tSpeeiab. -Coionel John F. Fellows
died at Chelsea this morning, ago seventy
two. He born In Salem, Mass, came to Boston
and became financial manager OF :" The Boston Daily
Atlas, which position he held until that paper sus
pended. He also for several years connected with
Tho Courier proprietor and publisher, and sew
cred HIS connection with that paper 10 enter the army
Colonel Fellows went the fi1nt Lieutenant Col
One Of tho Massachusetts Seventeenth and did efficient
service in North Carolina, having most OF the time
command OF the regiment. Ho captured and sent
to Libby Prison, where no remained until no was
selected OF the hundred TO DO conhned
Charleston, c. within range of tho guns of Fort
Wagner which bombaTdng that city Al the
end OF tho siege no procured an exchange ana
returned home. After his from the war he was
Gibson superintendent OF tho Chelsea Savings EdnS
a position which he held until few BlofIhs ago.
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MrRnrRs Iy rHE nuoorA rIOX

CHICAGO. July Ga dispatch to The Times from Fort
Smith Ark says: Near Lake West Choctaw Nation.
Joseph Mayo and his brothernlaw, Mike Johnson. be
came involved IN fight trivial matter and H..
NJ Mayo. brother OF Joseph. attempted TO separate
them Joseph Mayo stabbed several tunes by John
son and killed. H. ". Mayo seriously II not fatally.
cut, AMI johnson badly wounded by being struck
several times with plough point though he was able TO
make his escape John Froy assassin atci By his
pei xhbor George Phillips who shot his victim from am
bash then He'd tue country. Frey had lent fhnps
81 time lust winter, which he had failed TO return,
and fan g out over tue matter led 10 the murder
negro suspected OF being thief was called to his
door by party of men aud shot TO death John Jones
seriously, II not fatally, shot by fisherman ON Red
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-07-07

A GENTLE EEL MISTAKEN FOR WICKED SNAKE
Several members OF the household OF +. NJ. Monds-
chem, Of No. 35i East Fify-eghthst, were startled
last Friday afternoon by hearing piercing shreEs coming
from the bathroom Tie first to reach the room be-
held OF the family crouched up in one corner
with terrorsricRen counenance, and pointing wildly
at the tub. In the inch Of water which the tub
contained, swimming about coutentedly as though IN
native pond and whisking its little tail In seeming Joy
az having escaped from its close quarters was sna
eel which the frightened member OF the family declared
be snake and asserted that 1t had just run out Oh
the faucet with the water.
Mr. Mondschen captured the frsky young eel and put
1t jar, which he carefully placed on shelf When
he awOks the morning the jar had fallen OF inc
shelf and the eel apparently eoid and sim Ia aealn
Nr MOnischein however. succeeded In restoring 10 t
animal something its former fisliness, ana secohu
time hc imprisoned IL In fruit jar The eel which oy
tnls time had be something OF pet In the famy
died Tuesday and Mr. MOndschein assuaged MS giet
and that Of his family In measure Dy Yrltn5 the ioi'
lowing letter TO the Health Board:
GEsTRMEy: In the interest Of the health Of the comun
could JOrm tAat Friday Last large snake cAhe
through tho IA ucet. Respectfully, - =. ,,.,,,..
10 Yjl East Fifty. eighth.st. July D. 1857.
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AIKMAN-sudienly. at RoIbury. N Y. on Tuesday 9Th
John Alk%ap In his 76 3, year , ,,. ,..,ao,c.
rs Carroll.st Brooklyn. at4pm-
s1 1ry c Of eP Frank Gn D. na ans
Phraner Arthur, sgel Ia months
he adwS sssd - yss. morning July
Funeral at the residence OF W. C. Fooe Thursday afternoon
Inerment 81 Hartford
BETTs-In BROOKLYN. Juy4 Waiter LOOMS infant son Of
Morris and Annie LOOMS Belts
Funeral private.
BURBANK suddenly Of cholera in,,n tum at tbs rest.
y ySnGs d van nsry
dansSsr Of j. Liwrsucs and Hannah II. ciars assl 10
years.
coLEMAN-on ruest,v July resids,cs OF his son.
Mt Vernon. T. JOAN H. Coleman. in the 74th year OF
The funeral place Buffalo. N. Y. Thursday
July T.
cooLEY-At Hcmburr. Les Bans. July 3. Lousa NJ.
wSw q s a sse i"S
EvANs--At Brick Church " j. we,aesiay. July .. Har-
riet oakley. widow Of the late Lemaei G. Evans
Notice OF funerai hereafter
oALE-At Eienmore near. Troy N. Y. July L. f. Thomp-
Funeral rhnr,,y Jnly T. Iosoa M from 50 lstst Troy.
HARDENBERoH-on July at hts residence in this city
Richard Hardsnborga son of the late Rev. DIT.
HARvIER-At his residence 20 West loth-st rassily
night July oa.s lar 5 are esaey sr.ts
attend funeral q. the charos Of 81 Francis XAVIER
KINGn Phiaiep hia July 1884, Mary J.. widow OF the
Funeral s sorres a. sprucc-st Philadelphia Friday.
Sth inst. At d y. m.
pr ATT-At Scranton Penn, Monday afternoon, July 4.
Catharine s. Scranton. wife Of J. Curus Piait
at her ats residence In Scranton on raur
day, July T. at o'clock.
poLuENUs-on Tuesday July 9. 1887, Abram Poinemus
Relatives friends OF the family respectfully invited
10 attend funeral services At hts late residence. rs
West 4ethst, Friday. July 3. at To- IN
sIMPsoN-At Cobalt Conn., on sunday. July g. Lavinta
simpson widow Of the iate Wilson Simpson. IN tho 6iss
year OF her - 80. 90, -
Funeral service residence No 2040 5have ON
Thursday evening. 7th inst. at oo'clock.
Interment woodawn next day, 1t convenience OF family
flowers
cnmberand and Manchester England papers please copy
rHOMAS-On Tuesday. July 5. 1887. at Glen Cove L. T.
p widow OF John Thomas and daughter OF the late
aud invited to the funeral at her late
r.sitence Glen cove Thursday. July 7. at Up m.
Carriages ieaving Long Island City at lie3
a..
TUOMAS-At Bloomfield, N. j.. on July 4. Veeder IT,
Thomas, in the 57th year Of his age. -,
from his late residence Bayaye WEDNESDAY July
o. at $50 p ~
Inerment at Oswego, n. Y
wARSER-in Brooklyn. Wednesday afternoon. July o.
Eliot Warner. aged % Years.
at his late residence SS soutn Oxforct
Friday. July B. at 4:3o n ~
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TORTURED BY MEANS OF FAITH CURE.

Boston. July tspeciaD Eresing Transcript pub.
fishes letter from Boston physician Of high standing
exposing the practices Of Christian scientist" al
legged doctor This is not isolated Many others
might be cited. The letter Is In part as follows:
make this protest because Of tho and death which
socaed CHRISTIAN science practitioner Las brought
aged mouths she had been allowed suffer and
her life has shortened by weeks and BY months
Less than three months ago Was asked TO see this
poor who had been under the care OF Christian
scientist 70. more than six months found her IN very
feeble condition. hardly able get out OF bed Alone and
banched from the continued loss OF bleo She was told
after such belief on examination found that she was
suffering from which had been allowed to advance
far that impossible 10 remove By operation Much
the blood The scientist had full control and not
withstanlng patients OF PAIN
she told forget and urged into the The
patient allowed to ordinary OF relieving
pam such hot cloths. because In reality there
pain" Now what needed the most absolute quiet
result her efforts To be about there frequent
profuse henorrhage The patient told that she
better ew before her DEATH after drag
cling herself down three fights stairs and into the street.
hemorrhage began which lasted all night Beng alone and
having available article she Obliged TO tear
blanket her stanch the flow OF blood.
In told that II OF account
passing from her When the patient
doa0t her MAD referred u the torn blanket abe
told that merely showed how strong she Her
this mode OF treatment at last bed in
the hospitals Of the city procure for her. but she
died the day before she could be removed to
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soyK MEN WHOM MANY PEOPLE KNOW.

x,ur,,a bas bren represented In New-York for a
sew DAYS by two distinguished Of opposing politics
Lseperal william Malone and Governor Fitzhugh Lee
rbev are oppostes in personal appearance. Ex-Sen-
ator Malone is like an animated toothpick his
slender limbs are encased in tight-ftting tapenng
snuers His boots have heels Of the French pattern
and fit like kid gloves. He wears Prince Albert
broadcoah with skirts Of exaggerated length his
browning bit Of apparelis broad-brimmed excoeneiy
soft felt tile-l sort Of Gainsborough hat His wife
and son are with him at tho Fifth Avenue Hotel and
will san for Europe on Saturday in the Umbra
Governor Leo is not noticeable man In a throng.
He is stout bearded bronzed and Is evidently phieS
matte and stolid as compared with Malone. New
York Democrats of high and low degree have called
on him at the New-York Hotel He has had no end
Of hints and open suggestions from these visitors that
the Vice Presidency may go to the South one of these
days II the Democrats retain power and that Wiz
gnia as the state of the South which is Dig hghl-
Ing ground will be the first to be honoled and recog
pized in that event Governor Lees Affiliations III
his party are with the workers who rally around
HILL rather than with the Mugwumps who stand by
Cleveland The friends of Governor Hill are talking
about Lee in such friendly way as to make 1t
certain that they have at least cordial understand
ing that Hill and Lee would sound well on the ear
in 1885,
Theodore n Van, who came back yesterday from a
weeks yachting of Nantucket with face bronzed
and rudy by exposure, says that ovcrcoats were IN
5 demand during the voyage, and that the change 10
the city was like coming into hot box.
Ex-Congessman E. o. StanaTd Of St. Lonis, who
is at the Filth Avenue Hotel, says Missouri Republicans
have not yet made any decided expressions OF choice
for President They were pleased with sherman s
Nashville speech but he lost the good impression by
his Springfield Grafton. Missouri Democrats do not
know Hill and are for Cleveland
Policeman John Philips, the giant of the Broadway
squad, who has been twelve years ON duty at Fifth
ave- and Twenty thir-st will go on duty today as
sanitary inspector at Police Headquarters. alt Will
be unpleasant miss the old familiar faces uptown"
he said yesterday, but most of them are away now
for the summer. ! get off at O'Clock on my new
duty, and that gives me two hours rowing at my boat
club-the Metropolitan. When / came on this beat
there was not single store In Twenty -thirSlst. be-
tween Fifth and Sixth aves.
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they photographs In natural oolors "a wo uudor
stand that torn. - w ~~>
o'clock FOR GAMBLINe IN STOCKS
oNEBUCxEr-sHoP WHICH NEEDED NO rrLEGRApHIt


QUOTATIONS.
CHICAGO, July tSpeciab.- weeks ago the DO
ace mado raid on big bucket shop here where In
addition to the attraction OF betting the price OF
grain, the customers In the habit Of gathering
around big clock that stood In ono corner Of the
room and betting considerable money that Tho
clock was seized, and after several unsuccessful at
tempts the proprietor, William Skakel, was brought
before Justice Lyon this morning The clock is moth
Tug more nor less than automatic dealing box In
faro tho gambler employs fftytwo playing cards and
ono dealing box. This has two dealing boxes and has
from 1000 to 1900 cards. At the top of the clock
Is face similar to the face OF any clock except that
II is divided into quarters and numbered 10, 80, 45
and 60, presumably TO represent seconds. long
1and like tho second hand clock, moves around
shfs dial When arrives at the bottom 80 second
station q bell ginges, wire attached to arm gives
q litto jerk and card appears at a square opening
In the space below the dial. When tho second hand
arrives at 60 the thing is repeated except that
the card appears at another opening Just above tho
first In the rear is long chute that Will hold per
haps, thousand cards which run down to the places
In front, where they mako their appearance two at
time when tho bell rings. Tho cards have alleged
quotations In numbers-1S, IA, 12-and tho letters
IN Y. c." an. Y. G. preferred" Z" Commercial first
preferred, Commercial second preferred and Com
mercial common" These five kinds Of stock are all
supposed TO be quoted the cards appear. The
lower registers tho supposed fall in prices and the
npper box tho rise. Sklke committed for trial.
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THE STATE TEA CHEERS A $50 OLA ROY.

ELmAnErHrowS, July ispsciaD Tho New.
York stabe Teachers Association began Its for.
ty-seeond annual meeting here to-day. Three
hundred teachers In attendance Among those inter
ssted in educational work who were present were A. g.
Draper OF Albany Superintendent Of Public Instruc-
ton Elliot Danorth. OF Norwich Professor l. T. Barnes
AID superintendent Beattc. OF Troy; Colonel L. Evans
OF Buffalo; q: II. Beatty. Of Brooklyn; supern.
schools 7. +. Donely, Of Brooklyn; Mrs. Van wag-
OF Kingston, ard Miss Demond, Miss McGovern and
delivered address Of welcome. c. E. Surdam, OF West
New Brghton made the response Speeches were made
by g. Griffith OF NewPalz. I. j. Lusk, OF Bnghamton,
and Messrs kimba. OF Amsterdam, Smith, OF Warsaw,
and Miller, OF whitehall